alternate title: Rasha mahasha smasha Ichy McRedder…
i havent had a visible patch in 9 years so i tried to keep myself in denial the past 2 days but my shoulder is a blast of red bumpiness so it has to be admitted… i have poison ivy 🙁 …
I really thought I had grown an immunity to it since I got it twice between 01 and 03 and it was very mild skin rawness that didn’t compare even one tenth to the horror i had twice in my childhood. I’m talking “i want to be dead now” horror where my whole body was covered in extremely itchy, painful and uncomfortable red blisters that constantly oozed sticky oils and lasted 2-5 weeks.
I first felt the dry deadness on my skin at the begining of Toy Story 3 2 days ago and panicked but then thought it was okay cuz I’m immune now but… it got worse. not comfort wise really – it only itches when bothered with, but its gotten redder and bumpier and grosser looking.
ive kept it under control and there are still no blisters (well, small ones on my left thigh) and no weeping. just red irritation on my left forearm, right shoulder, left thigh, right leg and right side of my neck a little.
luckily everyone i saw today was already buzzed by 2pm and no one noticed. i can still keep this shame a secret. i baked it in the sun for an hour, am going on a diet of vitamin A and E rich foods (good for skin) and dabbing the more troublesome looking areas with pure rubbing alcohol.
none of those things are recommended poison ivy remedies… but i think they will work.
woot.
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